alan c wrote: > Gavin Ford wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +0000, alan c wrote: >>> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, >>> > try it in >>> > single quotes like this: >>> > >>> > mplayer >>> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"©right="(C)British >>> > Broadcasting Corporation"' >>> >>> Thanks, however that does not seem to work. >>> Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. >> >> Weird, it's working fine for me here with the same setup. Looks like an >> article >> about the XO machine. >> >> Make sure you're entering it all on one line, leave out the -playlist option >> and >> any line wrapping symbols your mail client may be inserting. >> >> Easiest way to do it I find it to enter the: >> >> mplayer ' >> >> then copy/paste the URL and enter the final: >> >> ' >> >> If it's not that, I'm not sure what's up with it. >> >> -Gav > > Thanks Gav > it has started working and I am delighted! > I am not sure what the difference was. I omitted the -playlist option > as you suggested, that certainly helped, and kept trying a few things, > but - now it works, including with the > -dumpstream -dumpfile <filename> > configuration too. > :-)
just remembered another thing - I also found a comment in the forums that removal of totem-mozilla helped someone, so I saw it was installed here and un installed it too. It did not seem to do anything detrimental in removing it, but maybe it helped also! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
